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... clays , muds , marls , sands , and gravels , which form the superficial accumulations , bear obvious evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived ...
... clays , muds , marls , sands , and gravels , which form the superficial accumulations , bear obvious evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived ...
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... clay , and other stratified rocks , there are numerous facts con- nected with the occurrence of these minerals , their disloca- tions , continuity , extension , and accessibility , which can be arrived at only through the ...
... clay , and other stratified rocks , there are numerous facts con- nected with the occurrence of these minerals , their disloca- tions , continuity , extension , and accessibility , which can be arrived at only through the ...
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... clay - beds , abundance of shells now living in polar seas ; and as we have no reason to suppose that the relations of life to external conditions were ever otherwise than at present , we are entitled to infer 40 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... clay - beds , abundance of shells now living in polar seas ; and as we have no reason to suppose that the relations of life to external conditions were ever otherwise than at present , we are entitled to infer 40 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... clays were deposited and shells lived , a climate similar to that of Greenland prevailed over British latitudes . If facts be of any value , such are the facts ; if knowledge of existing nature be of any importance to reason , such are ...
... clays were deposited and shells lived , a climate similar to that of Greenland prevailed over British latitudes . If facts be of any value , such are the facts ; if knowledge of existing nature be of any importance to reason , such are ...
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... clay containing huge water - worn blocks and boulders , then it was the result of some extraordinary current or over- sweeping wave of translation ; a deep ravine or precipitous mountain - gorge , then it arose from some internal convul ...
... clay containing huge water - worn blocks and boulders , then it was the result of some extraordinary current or over- sweeping wave of translation ; a deep ravine or precipitous mountain - gorge , then it arose from some internal convul ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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